McGuire v. Pittsburgh, 2022 Pa. LEXIS 1684 (Pa. S. Ct. November 23, 2022) (Wecht, J.), involved a dispute with respect to whether the city of Pittsburgh had a statutory duty to indemnify one of its police officers for a judgment entered against him in a federal civil rights lawsuit.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the argument that a finding by a federal jury that a police officer acted ”under color of state law” for purposes of Section 1983, 42 U.S. C. Section 1983, necessarily constitutes a “judicial determination” that he also acted within the “scope of his office or duties” for purposes of the Pennsylvania’s Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act (PSTCA).

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